In Which Chickenlady Treats a Rescue Cat
As some of you know we've recently acquired a rescue cat now named Basil.

When we picked Basil up from the local animal sanctuary he was in a sorry looking state - extremely thin, covered in scabs and he had filthy feet, claws and ears.

Once home we gently bathed him - he stood in the empty bath and we threw warm water over ourselves as he wailed.

He has continued to put on weight and the scabs are slowly disappearing.

Last week I had to take him to the vet for his inoculations and while I was there I mentioned his dirty ears. The vet put in some antiseptic drops and then gently cleaned out the worst of the black gunge with cotton wool buds. She then gave me a small bottle of ear drops and told me to administer them twice a day.

And so began the regime…

Each morning for the last few days I'd been holding Basil firmly while someone else gently squeezed a few clear drops from the little white bottle into his ears.

He hated it - struggled when I held him to give them to him, shook his head once they were in - splattering us in the process and with each passing day his ears didn't seem to look any better, if anything they appeared to be a little red.


Two days ago I went to get the bottle from the shelf in the kitchen. I opened the small box, removed the yellow bottle and returned to the sofa where Basil was being held….

I removed the yellow bottle.

Until two days ago we had been using a white bottle.






I have found that cats' ears get cleaner if you use cat ear cleaning medicine rather than cat travel sickness medicine.


( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 11:28, 10 replies)

lol, oops
Plus that photo of your cat looks well cool; he could run a cat Jazz Club......great :)
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 11:39, closed)

Basil
is looking rather smug in that piccy!

Lovely story though!
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 11:40, closed)

The towel trick
I assume you know that the best way to administer ear drops/eyedrops/clean teeth/cut claws/inject medication with cats is to wrap them completely in a towel? That way, you can keep all their claws safely wrapped up, you make it far less likely that you'll hurt the cat by accident, and the whole stressful affair is over and done with quicker.

/used-to-work-in-a-vets-&-kennels
( TheAlmightyBeev, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 12:18, closed)

Damn it
I was going to impart that gem of knowledge
(Meganinja, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 12:29, closed)

Thanks
will try that.

Gave up trying to administer eardrops to Mooshka after 2 attempts but thankfully her ears appear to be claen now.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 13:26, closed)

Mummifying the cat
in a towel and then cramming cat feet end first into a welly works well as it leaves both hands free to do ear/eye drops. Not as cruel as the cat would have you believe!
(Puddle of Sugar was still wallpapering on, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 14:18, closed)

Smugness personified.
All that cat needs is to be sitting at a table on a veranda and holding a croisssant.
( girlinthehole, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 13:35, closed)

I just
LOL'd at work. Got funny looks...
(Mr.Dog was in love again on, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 14:08, closed)

I just visualised..
"Me?, thirteenth Duke of Wymborne here in the sorbonne 6th form dormitory"?

"With MY reputation!"
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 18:27, closed)

Indeed.
Someone on here can shop that, shirley?
(ToysForBigBoys would spread her legs for Nick Clegg., Wed 12 Nov 2008, 19:50, closed)